DW Frost DK, need some help

Post by sfagias

Hello my fellow DKs, I have been away for a year and decided to get back into playing.

I checked Noxxic, Elitist Jerks and Icy-veins on what build is pulling more DPS at the moment and whatnot, and got a lot of info out of it. I just have one small problem, I am still not sure what to get as my tier 5 talent, because Noxxic is suggesting blood tap and Icy-veins is suggesting Runic Empowerment. I currently have the latter, but I am not sure it's the best choice. Would you guys mind giving me your insight?

Thanks for your help, appreciate it.

Post by jerkymonkey

I use Runic Corruption because I wanted something passive and Runic Empowerment (the other passive choice) only works on fully depleted runes. Therefore before the 45% proc rate is even taken into account, one of your runes has to be completely empty and then if activates a random rune, whereas Runic Corruption charges all runes and has no prior condition to proc.

I have no numbers to quantify my choice to use a passive talent over Blood Tap. Using a passive talent just fits my play-style better: no change to rotation, or wasted GCD. However, I would guess that the average dps for any of the choices would be roughly the same over the breadth of multiple boss encounters.

Post by Tykku

They all sim within 2% of each other. I use empowerment cause I'm used to it for frost.

Post by Piz420

I use Runic Corruption because I wanted something passive and Runic Empowerment (the other passive choice) only works on fully depleted runes. Therefore before the 45% proc rate is even taken into account, one of your runes has to be completely empty and then if activates a random rune, whereas Runic Corruption charges all runes and has no prior condition to proc.

I have no numbers to quantify my choice to use a passive talent over Blood Tap. Using a passive talent just fits my play-style better: no change to rotation, or wasted GCD. However, I would guess that the average dps for any of the choices would be roughly the same over the breadth of multiple boss encounters.

are you DW or 2H?

Post by jerkymonkey

DW

Post by sfagias

Thank you for your input gents. Jerky, I am not too sure about Runic Corruption, honestly I was more down to Runic Empowerment or Blood Tap, but since you brought it up there is no harm trying it.

Tykku, appreciate your input, this was exactly my thought when I first saw the new talents, i'm more used to empowerment, so I should probably get it until someone proves to me that Blood Tap is better. Although I do miss old Blood Tap.

Anyway, I guess since they all sim within 2% of each other there is no real harm of testing all 3 and deciding what's best for my DPS.

Cheers for your help.

Post by erzel

i've seen noxxic.com's talent choices...and ive seen ppls talent choices on youtube...i'd go with ones from both..mainly sticking with noxxic.com's choice and switching blood tap out with runic empowerment, thats what i would do...

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